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foreign policy was much more sort of mood music, who do you trust. and the first debate, the reason i think that might have been so damaging to the president is that it was about largely, about the economy, and he didn't seem to be fighting enough and, you know, he says to mitt romney, the math doesn't add up, romney says that's not true, my math adds up, and he was fighting and i think that makes a big difference to people. gwen: briefly, i just want to end up by talking about this issue because it seems to have boiled down this week to status quo versus change. four years ago broke -- barack obama was the change guy. how does that boil down in the next two weeks? molly? >> they just keep having the argument. gwen: really? oh, good. oh, joy. >> anything new at this stage? that's dangerous. >> i think you see romney focusing more on the personal and likability. he passed the debate test. he proved himself a viable alternative and now it comes down to this likable factor. every pom i've ever seen, obama has this, you may not approve of him but like hi
foreign policy was much more sort of mood music, who do you trust. and the first debate, the reason i think that might have been so damaging to the president is that it was about largely, about the economy, and he didn't seem to be fighting enough and, you know, he says to mitt romney, the math doesn't add up, romney says that's not true, my math adds up, and he was fighting and i think that makes a big difference to people. gwen: briefly, i just want to end up by talking about this issue...
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about how these candidates would handle foreign policy? >> you look at the record of the last four years and say is iran closer to a bomb? yes. is the middle east in tumult? yes. is al qaeda on the run, on its heels? no. >> you said that first we shouldn't not have a time line in afghanistan, then you said we should. now you say maybe or it depends. gwen: and what do we know about the ground game it will take for either one to win in covering the campaign's closing weeks, movie -- molly ball of 9 -- covering the campaign's closing weeks, molly ball of "the atlantic," gloria borger of cnn, susan davis of "u.s.a. today"," and james kitfield of "national journal." >> award-winning reporting and analysis, covering history as it happens. live from our nation's capital, this is "washington week" with gwen ifill. produced in associated with "national journal." corporate funding for "washington week" be provided by -- ♪ >> wherever our trail blazers -- trains divorce, the economy comes to live. norfolk southern. one line, infinity possibilities
about how these candidates would handle foreign policy? >> you look at the record of the last four years and say is iran closer to a bomb? yes. is the middle east in tumult? yes. is al qaeda on the run, on its heels? no. >> you said that first we shouldn't not have a time line in afghanistan, then you said we should. now you say maybe or it depends. gwen: and what do we know about the ground game it will take for either one to win in covering the campaign's closing weeks, movie --...
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of the people of the world so say it with me the us foreign policy is a blowback inducing homicidal bull in a cultural religious and geo political china shop didn't change. there was. that. far. too many. sitting. around. the world. it was not right. feeling. the answer to the truth i served in iraq in two thousand and four and two thousand and six i was in the second battle of. allusion november two thousand and four as a human being and as a person who has a heart i can't lie to myself anybody else and say that we had a reason to be there that there's a reason for the million iraqis that died in the five thousand troops said we say we're the greatest country in the world but we go and kill you know people in their country but we don't stop genocide in africa we don't help people that we can help that would be the greatest country in the world if we can save a million people instead of killing them and people if you're not convinced our foreign policy is morally bankrupt perhaps we should talk about money. in united states have need one point four trillion dollars for total war spe
of the people of the world so say it with me the us foreign policy is a blowback inducing homicidal bull in a cultural religious and geo political china shop didn't change. there was. that. far. too many. sitting. around. the world. it was not right. feeling. the answer to the truth i served in iraq in two thousand and four and two thousand and six i was in the second battle of. allusion november two thousand and four as a human being and as a person who has a heart i can't lie to myself...
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still he has focused foreign policy to make it more multilateral. part of what he calls a broader shift. >> after a decade in which we fought two wars that cost us dearly, the united states is turning to the vast potential of the asia pacific region. >> obama turned his attention at home to pushing through health care reform, something president after president had tried to do. he succeeded with what became known as obama care, the most significant overhaul since medicare and medicaid in the 1960s. he pushed to shore up banks after the financial crisis and congress passed legislation two years ago imposing stricter regulations on financial institutions and giving more protection to customers. reforming the nation's finances has proved more difficult. republicans criticized obama for the mounting national debt and they say the unemployment rate, 7.8%, is unacceptably high. >> the latest poll suggests the candidates are running close, but they were taken before the storm hit shore. earlier i spoke with nhk world's nishikawa on obama's successes and hi
still he has focused foreign policy to make it more multilateral. part of what he calls a broader shift. >> after a decade in which we fought two wars that cost us dearly, the united states is turning to the vast potential of the asia pacific region. >> obama turned his attention at home to pushing through health care reform, something president after president had tried to do. he succeeded with what became known as obama care, the most significant overhaul since medicare and...
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to topic, foreign policy. bad news for president obama because -- >> in the history of presidents of the united states, he's our worst at foreign policy. >> this is a very weak ill-conceived foreign policy. every place you look is failure. >> the jimmy carter years look like the good old days compared to where we are right now. >> the president has communicated weakness. >> jon: weakness in foreign policy! obama is weaker than coolidge in foreign policy! weaker than polk! weaker than president flinchington j. craphispants. (laughter) as you know, the only president in united states history who ever had his wallet stolen by a baby. (laughter) you don't hear as much about old president craphispants. (laughter) but given obama's foreign policy record, this debate is going to be a bloodbath. >> i congratulate him on taking out osama bin laden. drones are being used in drone strikes and i support that entirely. and feel the president was right. i want to underscore the same point the president made. i felt the same
to topic, foreign policy. bad news for president obama because -- >> in the history of presidents of the united states, he's our worst at foreign policy. >> this is a very weak ill-conceived foreign policy. every place you look is failure. >> the jimmy carter years look like the good old days compared to where we are right now. >> the president has communicated weakness. >> jon: weakness in foreign policy! obama is weaker than coolidge in foreign policy! weaker...
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, foreign policy, in two, four years. he laid the groundwork, but i don't think he's achieved as much as he wanted or as the people expected. >> we just heard from the professor about foreign policy. how do you think obama has changed the u.s. approach? >> right, well, obama had said repeatedly that america is a pacific nation. and he's been refocusing foreign policy toward asia. commanders at the pentagon really poured resourcetowards this region. and obama tried to strengthen economic ties, for example, congress passed a free trade fact with south korea. but mitt romney and others say obama still hasn't done enough on issues such as the currency disparity with china. republicans say his approach to nuclear weapons is misguided. the professor says somewhere along the way, obama got sidetracked. >> like the working without nuclear weapons, he had an idea and this global vision, but middle east was so volatile and promising at the same time. during his administration. and naturally i think he was sort of shifted to that re
, foreign policy, in two, four years. he laid the groundwork, but i don't think he's achieved as much as he wanted or as the people expected. >> we just heard from the professor about foreign policy. how do you think obama has changed the u.s. approach? >> right, well, obama had said repeatedly that america is a pacific nation. and he's been refocusing foreign policy toward asia. commanders at the pentagon really poured resourcetowards this region. and obama tried to strengthen...
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this week, a spotlight on the issue of foreign policy in the campaign. i'm joined by two long-time military correspondents who have each written fascinating new books on the topic, tom ricks, former "washington post" reporter and author of "the generals, american military command from world war ii to today" and michael gordon from the "new york times" here with "the end game, the inside story of the struggle for iraq from george w. bush to barack obama." welcome to both of you. great to be able to talk to both of you here. the close of this campaign. it is very interesting to hear both president obama and mitt romney look in their rearview mirror about the last decade in foreign policy and national security policy and the president saying, look, i ended the war in iraq, we are on a glide path out of afghanistan. and yet we know the threat from both of these countries still remains and there's a lot of unfinished business. michael, you get to a lot of that of course in your book, in iraq. the idea that we're done. put it in the rear view mir but there's a
this week, a spotlight on the issue of foreign policy in the campaign. i'm joined by two long-time military correspondents who have each written fascinating new books on the topic, tom ricks, former "washington post" reporter and author of "the generals, american military command from world war ii to today" and michael gordon from the "new york times" here with "the end game, the inside story of the struggle for iraq from george w. bush to barack obama."...
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. >> monday night, third and final presidential debate was on foreign policy. and the most sensitive and dangerous foreign policy issue, which is the bomb. >> as long as i'm president of the united states iran will not get a nuclear weapon. >> a nuclear iran number capable iran is unacceptable to americ israel. and if israel is attacked, we have their back. >> if israel is attacked, america will stand with israel. >>> president obama and governor romney were largely in agreement on a range of foreign policy concerns. particularly those centering on the middle east. the ouster of former president mubarak of egypt, the 2014 exit date for afghanistan, the killing of terrorists with nutes romney and obama echoed each other. >> question. is bipartisanship now back in style at least when it comes to foreign policy in a presidential debate? pat buchanan? >> no it isn't but they are moving toward consensus where the american people are at. they are both pro israel, going to stand beside them. both very hawkish toward iran, although they don't want war in the middle eas
. >> monday night, third and final presidential debate was on foreign policy. and the most sensitive and dangerous foreign policy issue, which is the bomb. >> as long as i'm president of the united states iran will not get a nuclear weapon. >> a nuclear iran number capable iran is unacceptable to americ israel. and if israel is attacked, we have their back. >> if israel is attacked, america will stand with israel. >>> president obama and governor romney were...
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this is a foreign policy failure. and the american people may take that into consideration a week from tuesday. >> schieffer: all right, senator, thank you so much. i have to move on. thank you for being with us. we'll be back with former white house chief of staff rahm emanuel in one minute. if we want to improve our schools... ... what should we invest in? maybe new buildings? what about updated equipment? they can help, but recent research shows... ... nothing transforms schools like investing in advanced teacher education. let's build a strong foundation. let's invest in our teachers so they can inspire our students. let's solve this. >> schieffer: and joining us now from akron, ohio, the mayor of chicago, rahm emanuel. mr. mayor, thank you so much. and i'm never one to presume to know what the answers are before i ask the questions, but my guess is you will will have a slightly different take on events and what we just heard from senator mccain. >> very good, bob. yes. first of all, the president immediately orde
this is a foreign policy failure. and the american people may take that into consideration a week from tuesday. >> schieffer: all right, senator, thank you so much. i have to move on. thank you for being with us. we'll be back with former white house chief of staff rahm emanuel in one minute. if we want to improve our schools... ... what should we invest in? maybe new buildings? what about updated equipment? they can help, but recent research shows... ... nothing transforms schools like...
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least they have somebody to blame if russia was not around the void of american foreign policy on syria would have been completely clear to everybody let's talk for a moment about the forces that will come to power in the us they're having elections very shortly. what does that mean for russia does it matter who is going to be in office for the next four years in terms of foreign policy do you expect any changes either way the russian president. said. already a couple of times that we will work with the president who's chosen by the american people so i don't think that moscow would like to take sides unlike the way america friends always like to take sides and who show that they would like to have this person as a president or that person and the one who is popular in the country would like him to become president of russia we have a different approach but mr romney complicated everything basically he set the tone of this election to the extent that russia is concerned and he made us make us choices made sure it's almost immediately when he said that he considers russia to be american
least they have somebody to blame if russia was not around the void of american foreign policy on syria would have been completely clear to everybody let's talk for a moment about the forces that will come to power in the us they're having elections very shortly. what does that mean for russia does it matter who is going to be in office for the next four years in terms of foreign policy do you expect any changes either way the russian president. said. already a couple of times that we will work...
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policy less militarized more in terms of seeking political solutions to conflict but president obama has ended the war in iraq mitt romney says he would have kept troops in iraq president obama is beginning to end the war in afghanistan and i think there will be a battle around the end of president romney if mitt romney becomes president he may well stay there on iran i think mitt romney is far more likely to side with a right wing israeli government in terms of little history strikes in the region which would be a disaster even according to the head of former heads of the shine bed and my side and i think on in terms of russia relations are not good but they would be worse under mitt romney who by the way led republicans in imposing arms control agreements which republicans for the last three decades have supported i think in terms of libya i wish there was more difference but the republicans want to arm the rebels so i think on a whole series of issues i wish there was more difference but mitt romney has around him a lot of the advisors who took us into the disaster of iraq the neo
policy less militarized more in terms of seeking political solutions to conflict but president obama has ended the war in iraq mitt romney says he would have kept troops in iraq president obama is beginning to end the war in afghanistan and i think there will be a battle around the end of president romney if mitt romney becomes president he may well stay there on iran i think mitt romney is far more likely to side with a right wing israeli government in terms of little history strikes in the...
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policy and i know that a candidates haven't focused on it too much that's probably because you guys have so many i cannot make and domestic problems to focus on but every time an american president is elected in fact the rest of the world and let me tell you how we see it at this point it doesn't we just wonder does it really matter if it's a republican or a democrat because we've seen every single president. let's start with clinton ok let's start with yugoslavia go and start a war in a different region and he would obama who got the nobel peace prize you know we see afghanistan iraq is not quite finished yet we see drones killing people in pakistani border. does it really make a difference for the outside world whether a republican or a democrat wins because libya also a possible intervention in iran and see. i think it makes a difference if president obama is reelected i wish it would make much more of a difference i think the similarities between the two parties there's a very forward particularly the establishment of the democratic party and the republican party our country des
policy and i know that a candidates haven't focused on it too much that's probably because you guys have so many i cannot make and domestic problems to focus on but every time an american president is elected in fact the rest of the world and let me tell you how we see it at this point it doesn't we just wonder does it really matter if it's a republican or a democrat because we've seen every single president. let's start with clinton ok let's start with yugoslavia go and start a war in a...
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my sense is that romney and obama are now so close in foreign policy positions, you would have less of an impact. so i think the exogenous factors is the economic numbers. and i think kelly had it right. that if you get an uptick in unemployment, from where it was, that is a big problem for the president. >> we're going to get other economic figures next week. we'll get a key read on manufacturing and saw the g.d.p. figures come in ok. chris: 22 r -- 2%. finally. >> the black swan is europe. and it doesn't look like there will be one. and on the positive side, you got big uptick in the housing market. chris: i think the president zpwoge to do well in handle -- is going to do well in handling this big hurricane. the number one job of a president is to protect us. i think that's a big issue. he can show himself to be a good president. when we come back scoops and predictions right from the notebooks of these top reporters. tell me something i don't know. chris: joe, tell me something i don't know. >> something i don't know. i don't know why barack obama couldn't speak on the record in th
my sense is that romney and obama are now so close in foreign policy positions, you would have less of an impact. so i think the exogenous factors is the economic numbers. and i think kelly had it right. that if you get an uptick in unemployment, from where it was, that is a big problem for the president. >> we're going to get other economic figures next week. we'll get a key read on manufacturing and saw the g.d.p. figures come in ok. chris: 22 r -- 2%. finally. >> the black swan...
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. >> that is the tea party's richard mourdock, who defeated federer in a foreign policy expert richard lugar and i be senatorial -- in the indiana senate for a primary bid the romney campaign said that they did not reflect his views. the women's votes -- obama has been losing some of the women's vote to romney. >> rebalancing, the first debate not that mr. mourdock said anything -- it is obvious what he was thinking. on the other hand, what he was thinking clearly is that rape much less important than preserving a life, and for a lot of women, saying that rape isn't all that important is a very unfortunate thing. romney has disagreed with them, but he has not taken back the ad he's running for mourdock. >> every time you watch the cable this shows now, you see someone from planned parenthood, or another group pro-abortion or so forth. the obama people are running with this ball, colby. will it have legs? >> i think it will have an impact. it calls attention to paul ryan, who shares the same view that there should be no exception for rape, abortion in case of rape or anything else, exce
. >> that is the tea party's richard mourdock, who defeated federer in a foreign policy expert richard lugar and i be senatorial -- in the indiana senate for a primary bid the romney campaign said that they did not reflect his views. the women's votes -- obama has been losing some of the women's vote to romney. >> rebalancing, the first debate not that mr. mourdock said anything -- it is obvious what he was thinking. on the other hand, what he was thinking clearly is that rape much...
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it is really harming our foreign policy. there needs to be a very pointed notion that our politics stop at the water's edge. that seems like a distant memory today. our foreign policy is really a open to all kinds of brutal political in-fighting. it is caused by a lot of things. it could be the internet gives everyone a platform to have an opinion. and that is terrific. it gets very nasty and very personal. it will ultimately erode the willingness of people to take these crazy jobs. i will never forget my daughter when i called her and she asked, "daddy who?" sarcasm at that age is not a very good. [laughter] we need to rebuild some bipartisanship. what a good place to start in asia. i think this is where our country's future is. this is a good place to start. i did not want to fixate on china, but that is a major challenge to us as we go forward. if we cannot develop or continue to have this kind of consensus of building relationships and not just transactions, but the need for very broad and deep relationship, i think we w
it is really harming our foreign policy. there needs to be a very pointed notion that our politics stop at the water's edge. that seems like a distant memory today. our foreign policy is really a open to all kinds of brutal political in-fighting. it is caused by a lot of things. it could be the internet gives everyone a platform to have an opinion. and that is terrific. it gets very nasty and very personal. it will ultimately erode the willingness of people to take these crazy jobs. i will...
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the next four years in terms of foreign policy if you expect any changes either way the russian president. said. already a couple of times that we will work with the president who's chosen by the american people so i don't think that moscow would like to take sides unlike the way america friends always like to take sides and who show that they would like to have this person as a president or that. the one who is popular in the country would like them to become president of russia we have a different approach but mr romney complicated everything basically he set the tone of this election to the extent the russian is concerned and he made us make us choices made sure it's almost immediately when he said that he considers russia to be american jew political fall in number one after this the answer is evident the president would like to win. mr romney said it all so we definitely would not like to have a president. who has some kind of. negative thing about russia. mr romney is elected it will be farcical see a trickle called a war mostly rhetorical but still it will poison the relationship t
the next four years in terms of foreign policy if you expect any changes either way the russian president. said. already a couple of times that we will work with the president who's chosen by the american people so i don't think that moscow would like to take sides unlike the way america friends always like to take sides and who show that they would like to have this person as a president or that. the one who is popular in the country would like them to become president of russia we have a...
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to listen to that foreign policy enunciated, which was just a mirror -- to hear that and then to look back at what he said just weeks ago is to make the wonder, what is he really want to do as president? >> he wants to be president. [laughter] >> well, he is full of mitt. [laughter] he used the word "peace" three times in two sentences. he said that we don't want another iraq. it basically came down to "i am not dick cheney, i am not donald rumsfeld." i do think that the debate, while the president was more knowledgeable and more in control and command, he came across too intensely and i don't think that he got to break through that he needed in the campaign. i think he won the debate, and among independents, two-one, but i know that he got it -- don't think that he got the edge -- >> it couldn't, because while he did well in the second and third debate, nothing could overcome the first debate. he let people down, he let himself down. >> roblin and colin powell -- public and colin powell in horses barack obama. >> you have to wonder if that is based on issues or if he has a slightly d
to listen to that foreign policy enunciated, which was just a mirror -- to hear that and then to look back at what he said just weeks ago is to make the wonder, what is he really want to do as president? >> he wants to be president. [laughter] >> well, he is full of mitt. [laughter] he used the word "peace" three times in two sentences. he said that we don't want another iraq. it basically came down to "i am not dick cheney, i am not donald rumsfeld." i do think...
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foreign policy analysts calling and explains the reasons behind that. one of the mistakes that people make is that they think that this is a debate between two men and i think what's important to do is to see who basically are the groups of advisors and a group of people behind the president and the groups of people behind romney are really the same people who bought us the iraq war and they're of the called the neo conservatives they want a much more aggressive foreign policy but americans don't want that a majority of americans don't want to fight a war with iran seventy percent of them don't want to do it unilaterally americans want to cut military spending that's what the polls show so what what romney had to do was to sort of back away from a lot of those positions except on military spending and seemed much more reasonable and sort of centrist if he sort of plays out what's really in his cards i think it into scaring a lot of people and they end up losing votes and so that was part of what was going on there he was trying to move more toward obama
foreign policy analysts calling and explains the reasons behind that. one of the mistakes that people make is that they think that this is a debate between two men and i think what's important to do is to see who basically are the groups of advisors and a group of people behind the president and the groups of people behind romney are really the same people who bought us the iraq war and they're of the called the neo conservatives they want a much more aggressive foreign policy but americans...
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during last momon's presidential debate on foreign policy, the president of our $16 billion corrupt united states gave aid to domestic enemies panatumimabv to betray people, unconstitutional wars against cia fabricated enemies for fascist gain. obama claimed to be our commander-in-chief, which he is not. he [speaker not understood] end the war in iraq which he has not. he lied about those ho actually killed us on 9/11 t. was not al qaeda. the three capital crimes of trees on rendered constitutionalist turn dictator president obama [speaker not understood]. he can redeem himself. number three, more mass murder mitt transformed himself to more money mitt romnesia. [speaker not understood] imposter commander-in-chief obama committed a treason which is a felony. [speaker not understood] worried about being held accountable to [speaker not understood] by yours truly, [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood]. president obama has lost his main no-brainer issue [speaker not understood]. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >>> john jingle. with more mass murders, [speaker not understood
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